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Earlier in the year when I was doing some research into writing my own LINQ Provider I stumbled across a great listing of LINQ Providers, two entries looked very interesting; the first was LINQ to RDF(Semantic Web), the second was LINQ to Excel. The latter caught my attention as it was a very simple implementation of a LINQ Provider, which ...

If you are building and deploying public facing web applications, security has to be one of your key consideration; ensure that you create a security threat model of your application to highlight the flow of data in your application and the possible weak points (Microsoft have a useful tool called Microsoft Security Assessment Tool which can ...

Microsoft released a new version of StyleCop - v4.3.1.3 last week and so we've just released a new compatible version of StyleCop for ReSharper. 

As I mentioned in my last post I've been working with Microsoft Blueprints, one of the problems I encountered was trying to come up with a generic, reusable way of working with T4 Templates (T4 is the used by Blueprints for all code generation as T4  is now integrated into Visual Studio 2008) to generate the code fragments. I created ...

I've been working with Microsoft Blueprints for the last couple of weeks, to see if it's a suitable deployment vector for some of our reusable IP and Engineering Practices. Blueprints is part of the Software Factories vision, it evolves and includes the great work already done with the Guidance Automation Toolkit, the DSL Tools and Visual Studio ...

Update: StyleCop for ReSharper is now feature complete.  In my previous post about StyleCop for ReSharper I said that I'd be posting updates about the tool to my personal blog rather than my EMC Consulting blog, but unfortunately there was a hardware failure on the server that hosts my personal blog and I've not had a chance to get things ...

Update: StyleCop for ReSharper is now feature complete.  A huge amount of work has been done over the last month since the previous release. We've added a new Quick Fix and Code Clean-Up Module frameworks which have helped us develop over 42 new fixes in addition to the 21 Quick Fixes we produced in the previous release. We've also given ...

[Update: A newer version has been released]  It's been a while since I published StyleCop for ReSharper on CodePlex. Just after I put the project live, I discovered that another developer, by the name of Colin Nash, had a similar idea - fortunately after a quick chat with Colin we decided to join forces and the StyleCop for ReSharper ...

Update: StyleCop for ReSharper is now feature complete. While I was on holiday Microsoft released a new version of Microsoft Source Analysis for C#, in the new version - 4.3 - it has been re-branded to it's original internal Microsoft name - StyleCop. There was a bit of a backlash against the initial release of Source Analysis - a few members of ...